Tagged: ingmar bergman

May 4, 2020

Monday Movie: The Seventh Seal, by Josh Long

This article originally ran as a part of our Top 100 Movies. In the Seventh Seal, filmic genius Ingmar Bergman delves deep into the philosophical. An ominous but playful Death plays chess with a knight recently returned from the crusades....

Craig Schroeder / home video hovel / movies / reviews

April 29, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Magic Flute, by Craig Schroeder

The lines between television, film, and performance art as a whole continue to blur with each passing year. With the Academy’s recent decision to uphold its stance and allow Netflix to contend for Oscars, the paradigm in which viewers consume...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

May 10, 2018

Criterion Prediction #139: Shame, by Alexander Miller

Title: Shame Year: 1968 Director: Ingmar Bergman Cast: Liv Ullmann, Max Von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Sigge Fürst, Birgitta Valberg Synopsis: A mild-mannered couple, Jan (Sydow) and Eva (Ullmann), reside on a remote island while a civil war is waged around...

Ingmar Bergman 100 / movies / Rep-port / scott nye

April 30, 2018

The Ingmar Bergman 100 / L.A. Rep-port Crossover Event: Handicapping the Bergman Retrospective, by Scott Nye

Ingmar Bergman directed forty films between 1946 and 1982, when he announced his retirement (he’d break this with another three films for television and one theatrical, but what can you do). Across our fair city, twenty-six of those will be...

Ingmar Bergman 100 / movies / scott nye

March 13, 2018

Ingmar Bergman 100: What He Gave Me, by Scott Nye

2018 marks the 100th anniversary of Ingmar Bergman’s birth. Though he died in 2007, his legacy lives on, and I’ll be taking the opportunity throughout the year to celebrate my favorite filmmaker. The headline, as headlines tend to be, is...

movies / news / scott nye

February 27, 2018

WB Gets FilmStruck, by Scott Nye

From the time FilmStruck was announced in 2016, it seemed like a match made in Heaven. TCM and The Criterion Collection – two of the most trusted brands in the business of bringing cinema to your home (and two which...

Ingmar Bergman 100 / movies / scott nye

January 7, 2018

Ingmar Bergman 100: The Touch, by Scott Nye

movies / sarah brinks / top 100 challenge

September 2, 2017

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #31: The Seventh Seal, by Sarah Brinks

I decided to undertake a movie challenge in 2017. This seemed like a good way to see some classic movies that I have unfortunately never seen. The Battleship Pretension Top 100 list provided such a challenge. This was my second time...